However, after reaching this conclusion, Li Zicheng and others were not only afraid, but also prepared to meet the government army with high spirits!

If a few years ago, when the rebels had 500,000 troops facing 50,000 government troops, they would be chased to cry and cry! But now 300,000 people face 50,000 government troops, they already have the determination to defeat!

This is because the rebels have honed a group of backbone in the connected battles! They have never been able to fight to learn how to fight and have completely become professional officers! Moreover, due to the changes in the war, many elite forces in the official army were dispersed and remained in the rebel army, which has improved the combat effectiveness of the rebel army!

On the contrary, due to many reasons such as insufficient food and salary supply and insufficient training, the combat effectiveness of the official army has declined. Although the official army is still better than the rebels in all aspects, the gap between them is getting smaller.

At this time, the leader responsible for counting the losses came in and said, "The general casualties of the King of Chuang have been counted. We have injured about 30,000 to 40,000 people, but most of them are refugees on the outside. As for the elite leaders of the middle families, they have lost two or three thousand people! They are also casualties that occurred in the early stage of the night attack."

Li Zicheng slapped his hands and said, "Look at what everyone is doing, I will say that there will be no casualties! If we were rushed by the official army's cavalry a few years ago, these more than 300,000 or 400,000 people will be dispersed! But now they are only losing tens of thousands of people! It seems that the Ming Dynasty is about to be exhausted!"

Niu Mangu immediately took the lead and shouted: "Yes! Kill into Beijing City and capture the dog emperor alive!"

With Niu Mangu taking the lead, the leaders shouted slogans with confidence, which dispersed the atmosphere of failure.

The next day, the army of both sides continued to move towards each other. However, the rebel army turned south and bypassed Ye County. The purpose of Li Zicheng did this was to not want the government army to contact the government army in Ye County, so as to defeat each other.

But what surprised Li Zicheng was that not only did not move closer to Ye County, but was also following him to the south. This could be seen from the extent of the opponent's cavalry. This made Li Zicheng puzzled.

In the end, I can only guess that the generals of this official army are very confident and intend to take over the credit for defeating the treasury army.

This made Li Zicheng very happy! So he was ready to teach this greedy official general a lesson so that he knew that he was not easy to mess with!

When the two sides were close to one day's distance, Li Zicheng knew through the captives that his opponent was a soldier from Shandong. He said to his leader: "We have fought all the soldiers from the north, which is the first time we have encountered soldiers from Shandong! Although we have fought against them, they are quite good at this!"

A leader below said: "King Chuang, no matter how he is swaying, after defeating him, he will know that Prince Ma is the third eye of the Long March!"

The other leaders applauded and expressed their desire to teach these Shandong soldiers a lesson. Li Zicheng was very satisfied and saw that everyone was full of morale, so he said, "That's the old rule. First, let two waves of refugees go to fight, and then the troops leaned forward to fight. Finally, the old camp's troops could directly defeat them!"

Li Zicheng said that letting two groups of refugees go up first is simply to consume the physical strength and bows and arrows of the government army. Generally speaking, after the two groups of refugees charged, although the refugees were seriously injured, most of the archers in the government army could not shoot arrows!

Even when other officials were under the impact of several times the enemy, they were exhausted and out of breath, and their official strength and spirit were at a disadvantage! At this time, they used elite troops to fight, and their physical strength and morale were at their peak!

As long as the two sides are stalemate at this time, the old camp's troops will completely defeat the official army as soon as they take advantage of the situation! This is the tactic of the rebels specifically to deal with the official army, which can be said to be successful! After all, the official army cannot conquer the refugees, and the number of soldiers must be much smaller than that of the rebels!

As the teams of both sides approached, the fighting between the rangers became more and more fierce! Although both sides suffered huge casualties, Liu Pei's cavalry clearly had an advantage in terms of results!

On the one hand, they have the advantage of armor, but they have generally lack armor. Even if they have them, they are mostly leather armor, not iron armor!

The other party

They also have short guns that can be used for long-range shooting. However, the cavalry in the area basically cannot ride and shoot. They can only fight in close combat, so the ranger will suffer heavy casualties!

The climax of the ranger’s fight appears when both of them can see their opponents on the horizon!

Yang Jingfa formed several teams of cavalry to attack in turn. They made full use of the shortcomings of the peasant army's volleys. After encountering both sides, they first shot a row of short guns, and then drew their swords to fight! They often defeated the existing ranger team in a short time.

When the brigades of troops from both sides approached the batch three or four miles, the most cruel scene appeared!

Because at this time, neither side could retreat to one side of the ranger fighting between the two positions. Because it would easily disrupt its formation! Therefore, one of the more than a thousand ranger in the two positions could only leave the battlefield alive!

At this time, their formation was completely disrupted and mixed with each other! All the cavalry tried their best to activate the war horses, allowing them to circle and reciprocate in the small space, and cooperate with each other as much as possible.

But for the cavalry, the space they are now is too small, almost crowded into a group! No cavalry dares to move to their side easily, because it will definitely attract long-range strikes!

Fortunately, Liu Pei's cavalry had a numerical advantage at the beginning. As the battle progressed, more and more rebel soldiers were defeated, making Liu Pei's side's advantage more obvious!

In the end, they finally defeated their opponents and got enough space to run! In other words, they ran like a ring, completely surrounding more than 200 cavalrymen in the rebel army!

The still alive rebel cavalry gathered their horses and gathered together, waiting for the final battle. But unexpectedly, the other party was not ready to rush to the formation, but took out a large number of short guns to prepare for shooting!
Chapter completed!